An old favorite cookbook that made the turkey easy. A simple brine. A simple technique. Whenever people think it’s too hard to cook or bake they should pull out this book.
If you want a turkey this good, they should google orange juice brown sugar brine. It will take them to Amazon where this recipe was featured.
The turkey was perfect. The brining took 15 hours for my 13 pound turkey from Maple Lawn. Their web site will be updated on December 7th for those who want to try turkey for Christmas.
For us, the small hen was easy to handle and fit into the dorm sized refrigerator for brining.
I put a platter out for our Thanksgiving dinner. I made soup with the wings and the one drumstick my husband didn’t eat.
I also made 5 quarts of turkey broth with the innards, skin and bones after making the Thanksgiving meal.
Three jars went into the freezer, and two quarts went into that soup. I will be making sandwiches for a few days, and a turkey casserole this weekend. All told, that bird will yield at least a half dozen meals. Not bad for $33.
And, I gave my mom about a half pound of perfectly cooked moist breast meat to make sandwiches and a dinner.
Local food. Easy to make. Worth the time it took. If you haven’t tried making a turkey, you should get over to Maple Lawn and buy a small 10-12 pound hen. You really don’t need to brine it. But, it really improves the taste.
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